Scene on Radio podcast

Scene on Radio

Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Our latest is Season 7, Scene on Radio: Capitalism.  Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2), looking at the roots and meaning of white supremacy; MEN (Season 3), on patriarchy and its history; The Land That Never Has Been Yet (Season 4), exploring democracy in the U.S. and why we don’t have more of it; The Repair (Season 5), on the cultural roots of the climate crisis; and Season 6, Echoes of a Coup, the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history, in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898. Produced and hosted by John Biewen, with collaborators, Scene on Radio comes from the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.  The show is distributed by PRX.

Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Our latest is Season 7, Scene on Radio: Capitalism.  Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2), looking at the roots and meaning of white supremacy; MEN (Season 3), on patriarchy and its history; The Land That Never Has Been Yet (Season 4), exploring democracy in the U.S. and why we don’t have more of it; The Repair (Season 5), on the cultural roots of the climate crisis; and Season 6, Echoes of a Coup, the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history, in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898. Produced and hosted by John Biewen, with collaborators, Scene on Radio comes from the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.  The show is distributed by PRX.

 

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Bonus: Michael Kliën and the Body Politic

Michael Kliën wants to help bring about profound change in the world, but not through the ... more

22 Jan 2025

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22 Jan 2025


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Introducing: A Breach Repairer's Song

Sharing an episode from a series we think many of our listeners will like to hear. Reveren... more

15 Jan 2025

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15 Jan 2025


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S7 E13: CAPITALISM Bonus, Live at Motorco

With our Capitalism season and the election behind us, now what? Can we find hope and a wa... more

11 Dec 2024

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11 Dec 2024


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Post-election '24 All-Star Special

Host John Biewen is joined by Celeste Headlee, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Ellen McGirt, and Amy ... more

21 Nov 2024

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21 Nov 2024


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S7 E12: Reimagined Economies

In our season finale, we visit with people on two continents who are turning core structur... more

18 Sep 2024

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18 Sep 2024


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Bonus: Introducing Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD

The police tell us they are here to protect us. But what if their original purpose was som... more

12 Sep 2024

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12 Sep 2024


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S7 E11: Better Capitalism?

In the first of two episodes looking at responses to capitalism’s failings, we explore ref... more

04 Sep 2024

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04 Sep 2024


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S7 E10: The Extracted

A visit to West Africa and Western Europe to look at the cocoa trade. Did the colonial sid... more

21 Aug 2024

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21 Aug 2024


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S7 E9: At the Tipping Point

In 1972, a team of young scientists at MIT published a study exploring what would happen t... more

14 Aug 2024

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14 Aug 2024


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S7 E8: The People's Pushback

S7 E8: The People’s Pushback  Over several decades, a growing number of people in the Unit... more

07 Aug 2024

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07 Aug 2024


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S7 E7: Gilded Age 2.0

S7 E7: Gilded Age 2.0 After 40 years of neoliberalism, most Americans of every political s... more

31 Jul 2024

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31 Jul 2024


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S7 E6: Thirty Glorious Years

How the balance of power shifted, for a time, in the decades after World War II, and led t... more

24 Jul 2024

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24 Jul 2024


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S7 E5: A New Thing in Human History

An age of invention and mass production, propelled by a new mechanism – the corporate rese... more

17 Jul 2024

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17 Jul 2024


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S7 E4: Invisible Hand Guy?

Economic change happens in a cultural context. We trace the tectonic shifts in the Western... more

10 Jul 2024

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10 Jul 2024


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S7 E3: Ships, Swords, and Fences

From the voyages of Columbus and Vasco da Gama to colonial conquest and the Atlantic Slave... more

03 Jul 2024

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03 Jul 2024


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S7 E2: BC: Before Capitalism

To fully grasp capitalism, it helps to understand the system it replaced – and the most me... more

26 Jun 2024

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26 Jun 2024


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S7 E1: Market Failure

Introduction to our 7th season: Capitalism. The world’s dominant economic system is on tri... more

26 Jun 2024

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26 Jun 2024


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Season 7 Trailer: Capitalism

Welcome to Season 7: Capitalism. The world's dominant economic system is on trial as it ha... more

12 Jun 2024

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12 Jun 2024


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Bonus: Long Shadow, In Guns We Trust

As we get ready to launch our Season 7, a bonus episode from another podcast we think our ... more

22 May 2024

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22 May 2024


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S6 E5: A Way Forward

What would it take, and what would it even mean, to heal from a wound like the Wilmington ... more

08 Feb 2024

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08 Feb 2024


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S6 E4: The Forgetting

After the massacre and coup of November 10, 1898, white supremacists in North Carolina soo... more

31 Jan 2024

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31 Jan 2024


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S6 E3: A Day of Blood

On November 1898, North Carolina Democrats won a sweeping victory at the polls – confirmin... more

24 Jan 2024

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24 Jan 2024


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S6 E2: Crying "Negro Rule"

By 1898, two decades after the end of Reconstruction, white elites, backed by violent terr... more

17 Jan 2024

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17 Jan 2024